Renaissance

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Train A is heading for Italy at 70 miles per hour, 1040 kilometers away. At the same time, Train B, traveling 50 miles per hour, leaves for Italy which is 8,137, 000 kilometers miles away. Which train would get to Italy first? Suppose that Train A represents Greece and Rome, while Train B is China. Although the argument that China influenced the Italian Renaissance has been brought up, this event was influenced by Greece and Rome through the humanities, the language and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
One of the most significant movements of the Renaissance was the humanities. During this time period, people, like Machiavelli, More, and Erasmus examined the...
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 World, 236). As visual A shows, artists like Petrus Christus depicted vast horizons and captured palpable atmosphere
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that lied between the viewer and far assistance in their paintings. Chinas art did not include any of these techniques. According to Diane Nelson, China produced works based on Song bird and flower, and landscapes. Their style of painting resembled calligraphy and had more assertive brushwork. As seen in visual B, Chinas art differed greatly from that of the Renaissance, not only by technique, but also by the subject of the art. Renaissance and Chinas art is like apples and oranges; the two are alike in the way that they are the fruit of inspiration, but other than that, they do not share many other similarities.
The Renaissance overlapped the Middle Ages, and came about when people started to reject the ideas and attitudes of the Middle Ages. The rejection started with Petrach when he criticized medieval habits of thought as inadequate and elevated (Renaissance. Europe, 178). This resulted in the intellectual movement of humanism as Petrach believed that the ancient ideals and literature of Greek and Rome should be followed. This started one of the greatest factors of the Renaissance as ideas and beliefs were changed and adapted to those of Greek and Rome while the ideas of the Middle Ages became abandoned. Social historians even argue that there was no Renaissance, and that it was instead a part of the Middle Ages (Renaissance. Europe, 177). Historians like Professor James Benjamin, argue that the pass from the Middle Ages to the
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